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General information | |
Type | Office |
Location | 717 Texas Street, Houston, Texas |
Coordinates | 29°45′42″N 95°21′51″W / 29.7616°N 95.3643°W |
Completed | 2003 |
Opening | November 10, 2003 |
Height | |
Roof | 453 ft (138 m) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 33 |
Floor area | 791,135 sq ft (73,498.8 m2) [1] |
The Calpine Center is a 453 ft (138m) tall postmodern skyscraper in Downtown Houston, Texas. The building has 33 floors of Class A office space. [2] [3] The building has the world headquarters of Calpine Corporation. [4] Hines and Prime Asset Management jointly developed the building. The Houston office of HOK designed the building, and Turner Construction acted as the general contractor. [3] It is connected to the downtown tunnel system. Mark Russell of Studley, a real estate firm, said that the Calpine Center is more efficient than many of the tall office buildings built in Houston in the early 1980s. [5]
Originally Calpine intended to lease 300,000 square feet (28,000 m2) of space. By February 2003 Calpine announced that it would sublease some of the space to other firms. [6] The Calpine Center was scheduled for completion at the end of 2003. In July 2003 the space was 82% booked for occupation. Calpine and Burlington Resources, another energy company, leased space in the building; each company agreed to lease 250,000 square feet (23,000 m2) of space. In addition Jones Day agreed to lease over 50,000 square feet (4,600 m2). [2] The building opened on Monday November 10, 2003. Other tenants that had occupied the building by its opening included Cheniere Energy Inc. and Hines's southwest region development office. [3] In 2004 Avalon Advisors LP agreed to lease 9,385 square feet (871.9 m2) of space in the building, bringing its occupancy level to 86%. [7]